Where does “དགུ་བཅུ” come from?

དགུ་བཅུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan བཅུ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj — ten.

དགུ་བཅུ (Tibetan): ninety

Definitions

  1. ninety

Ancestry of “དགུ་བཅུ”, step by step

དགུ་བཅུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan བཅུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབཅུten; future of འཆུ
2Proto-Sino-Tibetants(j)i(j) ~ tsjajten

via Tibetan དགུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanདགུnine
2Proto-Sino-Tibetand/s-kəwnine
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj →Every word from Tibetan བཅུ →